It was the early days of the Gold Rush in California
and this area of the country was continually seeing battles between the white
men who came in search of fortune and the Indians, who were fighting to protect
their home that was increasingly becoming encroached upon. Prospectors that
tried to enter California from the northeast were in particular danger.

This was where the California Trail was located and
the trail travelled south into Sacramento Valley through to Pit River route. It
was here that there were particularly nasty battles between the two groups and
many massacres were seen. This was how it was come to be known as Bloody
Springs. One group of prospectors was attacked so violently here that the entire
group was killed except one man. The man started towards Fort Cook and would
tell his story to people he met along the way.

He told of how his wagonload was a load of
twenty-dollar gold coins, totalling approximately $60,000. According to his
story, as he was leaving he saw the Indians playing a game with the gold coin.
They were taking turns throwing the coins over the Pit River gorge, to see who
could throw them the furthest. The Indians played the game until every coin had
been thrown across. The area today is still known as Bloody Springs in Lassen
County.

Where is the treasure of the Lost Blue Bucket Mine?

In 1845 a group of settlers were heading west
and decided to take a shortcut suggested by Joe Meeks, leaving the trail behind,
they followed the Malhuer River in eastern Oregon.

The mine is believed to be on a tributary of the John Day River in
Oregon, but it hasn't been yet found.

Where is the lost treasure of Bone Hill?

There are two stories that have been told about the
treasure lost at Bone Hill. The first one is from Indian Lore and is prior to
Levasy, Missouri becoming a town. This area of Missouri was where Indians would
hunt for buffalo. They would stampede the buffalo and then kill them on this
hill, leaving behind only the bones, hence where the name Bone Hill came to be.
Settlers arriving to the area found flint-scraping tools, arrowed and of course
bleached buffalo bones in very large quantities. The bleached bones came from
the bones lying in the direct sun.

The next story that was told about Bone Hill is one
of buried treasure and a mysterious light that appears upon the hill. Prior to
the Civil War, a family came to the area to farm along with their slaves. They
settled Bone Hill and the slaves build a stone fence around the entire acreage.
During 1862, there was fierce border warfare going on and the farmer sold his
acreage for gold. It is believed that he buried this gold along the stone wall.

The family moved away and promised their neighbors
to return in 7 years. The family never did return, however, a mysterious light
did appear in exactly seven years in 1869. This mysterious light has appeared
every seven years since that time around the location of the stone wall. Some
believe it is the ghost of the farmer coming back to find his buried treasure.

Not everyone around Levasy may believe in the
buried gold, but many have seen the light. No one has actually recorded
searching for the gold. Who knows it may still be there and if anyone would
follow the ghost when he appears every seven years, they maybe led to the
location of the gold.

The light is scheduled to appear once again in
2009. If you decide to visit the area about that time you only need to travel
south of Levasy about 1 ½ miles on the west side of H Highway. You will be able
to see the remains of the stone wall. Now, just camp out and wait. Levasy is
about 25 miles east of Kansas City on U.S. Highway 24.

When you begin your search for the
Breyfogle Mine you will soon learn that there is more than one story being told
about this infamous mine. The most popular is something like this.

Charles C. Breyfogle was living around Austin,
Nevada and was working either as a mill worker at a quartz mill at Big Creek
about 16 miles south of Austin or as a blacksmith in Austin in 1863. He enjoyed
searching for unfound mineral deposits all around the area, which he did every
chance he got. On one of his expeditions, he discovered a ledge that would have
him returning time and time again.

As the legend goes, Breyfogle took two horses on
this trip and headed west from Austin. He camped and then climbed a low hill.
There he discovered a large amount of red quartz scattered with free gold. He
worked all afternoon gathering samples of this gold. He returned to camp after
several hours of mining only to find both horses gone! He spent the rest of the
day searching for his horses and they were not to be found. He then spent the
night in the desert without food and water. The next morning, again without food
or water, he began his search for his horses. He finally passed out from the
high heat in the desert and awoke in a Shoshone Indian Village. After his
recovery, he headed home to Austin.

He talked with his employer, Dave Buel, concerning
his gold find and wanted him to help him file claim on his find. Breyfogle went
searching once again for the small hill and the abundant gold, but never found
any signs of it. He did find the Shoshone Indian village but never the gold.

There have been many mines in the area around
Austin and perhaps one was the lost Breyfogle mine. Some of the other mines in
the area include Johnnie mine, Chispa mine, and the Round Mountain mines. One
such mine was found in the 1930s with a marker that was inscribed "BY.FOGLE
1863". However, no one knows for sure if this was a sign left by Breyfogle or if
his mine is still unfound.

Robberies to Wells Fargo had numerous faces; one of
them was Bronco Bill. William E. Walters was born in 1869 in Fort Sill, an
Oklahoman Indian Territory. It is know that during the early days of his life he
worked as a cowboy before getting a job at the Santa Fe Railroad as a section
hand.

At this stage of his life, he began with train and
stagecoach robberies who later became Bronco Bill, an outlaw that joined the
Black Jack Ketchums gang in Arizona, but after shooting several men, he invited
some bandits to form his own gang specializing in robbing Wells Fargo
stagecoaches.

Targeted by Wells Fargo as public enemies, Bronco
Bill was caught with his men at their hideout outside of Solomonville, Arizona,
where it is believed he buried the Wells Fargo gold. Convicted of train robbery
Bronco bill was sent to prison for life.

However, the stolen cache was never found after
Wells Fargo took over the hideout to recover it. Bronco Bill was suddenly
released from prison in 1917. Sent to Hachita, a small town in New Mexico,
William Walters worked as a wrangler at the Diamond A Cattle Company, a ranching
outfit.

Bronco Bill never returned to Solomonville, perhaps
because there was no gold to rescue, but probably because he simply wanted to be
known as William E. Walters once again, a common citizen who died after falling
from a windmill tower at the company he was working on.

It is undeniable that Bronco Bill robbed a fortune
from Wells Fargo and that he had no time to spend that gold or move it away from
Solomonville, although it is clear that he would not take the risk of burying
his treasure inside or near his hideout. On the other hand, that amount of gold
was impossible to be carried out without making it noticeable so it must be
still be buried somewhere around Solomonville, Arizona.

Where is the lost treasure of Bumble Bee, Arizona?

Arizona is a great state for searching for lost or
hidden treasures. One legend or tale concerns Bumble Bee, Arizona. Bumble Bee is
in Yavapai in Bronco Canyon, which is just a bit north of Black Canyon. Today,
Bumble Bee is a ghost town. Many of the old buildings have been restored to
their original design from the 1800s when gold was on the minds of many.

The legend that has been passed down from
generation to generation proclaims that 200 pounds of raw gold is at the bottom
a creek close by the junction of Slate and Squaw Creek nearby the small town of
Bumble Bee. These two creeks intersect about 4 miles east of Bumble Bee.

The story played out like this. Two miners in the
1800s set up camp in the canyon while they were prospecting in the area. Good
luck smiled upon them and they discovered a rich vein of gold quartz. They
worked hard at retrieving the gold and stored in under a large rock close by
their campsite. When the cold winds began to blow and they knew that winter was
coming fast, they began making plans to head home with their gold. They began
packing up supplies while leaving the gold hidden. Shortly before they began to
pack up their find, they were attacked by Apache Indians. One of the prospectors
was killed and one barely escaped.

The surviving miner went home with only his story
of the rich gold vein and the Indians attack. His desire was to wait until the
Indians had been subdued. By the time, the Indians were no longer a danger; he
was quite old and had fallen ill. He told the story on his deathbed of the gold
vein and where they had hidden the gold, they had mined.

Many years later, a Mexican sheepherder, unaware of
the legend did find the campsite. He did not know about the gold, therefore, he
did not search for any hidden treasures. Others that have explored the area have
not found the gold vein or the hidden gold. As far as anyone knows, the gold is
still hidden.

Back in the 1850s, around Mokelumne Hill, California a
black prospector was very lucky when it came to finding gold. He later moved to
the San Antone Camp, which was located on San Antone Creek. San Antone Creek was
a branch of the Calaveras River. With him, he brought the 136 pounds of gold
that he had found at Mokelumne Hill. He brought his gold into the Cuneos
general store where he had it weighed and then went on his way to around ¼ of a
mile up San Antone Creek where he settled. He built a cabin and began working
his claim in a ravine, which became known as Busters Gulch. The only money he
ever used was to purchase supplies the rest he buried in a Dutch oven. A Dutch
oven is a large iron pot similar to a skillet that was used to bake items over a
fire or in an oven. Buster passed away in 1872, many people searched his home
and the land surrounding his cabin in search of the buried Dutch oven. No one
ever found either of them.

However, there are two very different tales
concerning Busters death. One is that Charlie Vickers cared for Buster during
his last days and he may have found Busters gold, by following Busters dog to
its whereabouts. A few years after Busters death, Vickers who spent most of his
time gambling and losing, began to show signs of wealth.

The other tale of Busters demise is one of evil
intentions. A man by the name of Smokey Hill had talked of his plan of killing
Buster and taking all of his gold. The townspeople really loved Buster and his
unusual ways and when they heard about this plan, rushed out to save Buster, but
they arrived too late to save Buster from this evil man. Smokey Hill was
captured and lynched for his hideous crime. Once again, the tale explains how
the entire area was searched and no one found a Dutch oven full of gold.

To this day, Busters buried gold is still hidden
away in the safe place where Buster placed it.

Where is the loot from Butch Cassidys last in Idaho?

Butch Cassidy had pledged that his last bank robbery
would be the bank in Winnemucca, Nevada. After the robbery, he and Sundance
planned to head to New York and then set sail for Buenos Aires. However, after
the robbery he realized that most of the loot was gold coins a matter of fact
$32,200 of it. Butch Cassidy was not fond of gold coins; he preferred paper
money and negotiable bank securities, which are easier to carry.

One of bunch, Harvey Logan was not planning to
travel with Butch and Sundance to Buenos Aires. He also wanted to do one more
heist and convinced Butch into one last caper. This time it was the Great
Northern Railroad that was hit in Wagner, Montana where they walked away with
$40,000 in negotiable bank notes. Bunk and Sundance kept with their plan, left
for New York, and then sailed to Buenos Aires.

The rest of the bunch, including Harvey Logan
headed toward Idaho. In their possession were six or seven sacks full of gold
coins along with their share of negotiable bank notes. Within six months, Harvey
Logan was captured in Tennessee. In his suitcase, the only thing that was
recovered was paper money and one dollar in gold.

There are several stories concerning the rest of
the gang that did make their way to Idaho and buried the gold along the creek
north of Stage Road between Wallace, Idaho and Spokane, Washington. So, the gold
coins that were part of Butch and Sundances last robbery have never been found.
Today, the $32,200 gold coins would be worth a fortune. No matter, how many have
searched for the coins, none as of this time has been found.

In Amador County, California back during the gold rush
days, a group of African American miners were mining an area close to Sutter
Creek. This group of men held the claim to this area and worked the area until
they had so much gold that they could not carry anymore out of the area and
there was no place large enough to hold the gold that was found. They all left
carrying with them the gold they could carry. Only one lone prospector stayed
behind and his name was Butler.

As the legend goes, Butler borrowed $600 from a
name by the name of Uncle Pompey so he could open up his own claim just around
the bend from where the entire group had found gold in Sutter Creek.

Butler began to work his claim and he was right! In
one days time his gold pan would be completely filled with gold nuggets. Many
people claimed that while using a rocker during for a days work would yield
around $50,000. Remember, this was during the gold rush era and his find was not
kept secret long. Many others heard of this treasure find and wanted a piece of
the action; people began to hunt down some of Butlers old partners to get them
to sell interest in the claim. This of course brought about lawyers and lawsuits
all wanting some of this huge fortune found in Sutter Creek.

Butler could not handle all the disagreements and
court cases. He soon became very ill with a fever and passed away. Upon his
death, $80,000 was found on deposit at Mokelumne Hill and about the same amount
at Sacramento. However, all of his friends knew him well and understood that
many times he would bury his gold nuggets close by where he found them within
his claim. As of this day, no one has ever found those gold nuggets buried by
Butler somewhere around the bend on Sutter Creek.

The Bodie stage just a few miles north of Bodie and
the Bodie stage at Freeman Junction around 60 miles east of Bakersfield were
robbed. The money from the stage north of Bodie and a strongbox from the other
robbery have never been recovered.

In Arroyo Cantova, Hornitos, and some other
locations nearby, Joaquin Murietta hid his loot from robberies.

There is a tale of an underground hiding place
close to the town of Avila in San Luis Obispo County. The tale is that several
desperados and bandits would congregate in this cave and divided their loot.
Some believe that if this underground cave could be found there would be a
fortune discovered.

Throughout Death Valley, there are tales of wagon trains, bank robberies, and
other treasures hidden in various areas. Some say the entire wagon was taken to
the desert area and once the money was taken, the wagon would be burned.

Money from the San Francisco Mint is told be buried
at Shelter Cove close by Point Delgado in Humboldt County.

Lost gold mines of California?

There are several lost gold mines throughout
California. This did happen a lot more frequent than anyone could imagine during
the gold rush days. A miner would happen upon a large vein of gold and then by
the time he returned could not find the exact location of his fortune. No one
really knows the reason this mines were not found again, possibly the terrain
changed, lost landmarks, or just confused directions could be the main reasons.

One of these mines is the Lost Cement Gold Mine.
This mine as legend states is in the dense woods close to the Sierra Mountain
headwaters of the San Joaquin Rivers middle fork. The story goes like this. A
small group of miners in 1858 found a ledge of red lave similar to cement full
of gold. These miners began to quarrel and one member of the group killed
another with an axe and then Indians took care of the rest and the Cement Gold
Mine has not been found again.

Gunsight Mine, which was found by Mormons near San
Bernardino in 1886, brought them fortune. However, Apache Indians killed of many
of the Adams Diggings miners and the whereabouts of the mine.

Long before gold rush days, in 1827, Thomas Smith
became lost somewhere west of Yuma, Arizona. He climbed a small hill to try to
find his location and at the top of the hill, he found handfuls of pebbles that
were the color of bronze. He placed the pebbles into his saddlebags and rode
off. Several years later in Yerba Buena, which is now San Francisco, he pulled
the rocks out and learned that he had $2,000 worth of almost solid gold. He
tried his best to recall the location but the mine was never found.

Soldier Mine was found when a group of men was out
searching for a kidnapped woman close to the big bend of the Gila River in
Arizona. In their saddlebags they had carried back with them $1,800 in gold.
However, they could not remember the location where they had the gold.

This is probably only skimming the surface of the
actual gold mines that were found and then lost throughout California before,
during and after, the gold rush day.

Throughout the state of California, many people have
lost valuables, buried treasures, or hidden their valuables. The problem comes
in when the people that buried their valuables are unable to return to find them
or cannot find the exact location.

Some of the lost treasures that are still waiting
to be found in California include the following tales.

On Owens Lake in the Owens Valley in May of 1882,
the S.S. Mollie Stevens was lost filled with gold bullion. Another account is
that the S.S. Mollie was beached but caught fire and sank with the entire load
of gold bullion.

Close to French Gulch in Shasta County, a payroll
known as the Rifle Barrel Payroll was lost and never recovered.

When most people think of treasure they envision gold,
silver, jewelry and of course money, however, treasure can be made up of many
different things, as you will see with Callisters collection.

Henry Callister was a Baltimore, Maryland merchant
in 1751. He had collected a very large assortment of fine books. Many of his
friends and associates forced him to lend him these wonderful and enchanting
books. Since, he wanted his rare collection of books returned by the borrowers
he ordered several hundred specially designed bookplates with the Callister name
of them so he could attach them to his books. This would be a reminder to the
borrower to give him back his books once they had been read.

Callister passed away in 1765 and his widow and
daughter in the way of finances to help them through the years. They did open a
school for misses, but this still did not help them to make ends meet. They
began to sell off Callisters collection of books with the nameplate in place.

Today, none of the books in the Callister collection has been recovered and to
anyone that has one has a rare treasure worth much more money than you could
imagine. Included in Callisters collection is a rare find, a copy of
Massachusetts Bay Colony Psalm Book.

It might be time to start looking through all those
dusty old books that belonged to your great grandparents. Who knows you may find
one or more of these rare and unique books.

Where is the lost treasure of Captain Cook?

Natives were once the only inhabitants of Hawaii and
they had seen very few white men. Captain Cook was one man that ventured to the
Hawaiian Islands. The story of Captain Cook may not be found in history books,
but it was passed down through the generations of natives that lived on the
islands.

In 1778, Captain Cook was exploring the Hawaiian
Islands. The natives still new to seeing white killed Captain Cook and took all
the items off his ship they could. Among the many items were treasures of
various types, guns, lead, powder, and other personal items belonging to Captain
Cook and his crew.

The natives did not know what many of these items
were and believing these items had magical powers carried the items to their
king. The king himself had not seen many of these items before and had the same
belief that they were some type of magical devices. The king then ordered that
all of the items found were to be buried.

Many people believe that the treasure of Captain
Cook and his crew is buried on the island of Kauai. This is the one Hawaiian
Island that is known for hidden treasures of King Kamehameha I during his reign
in 1819. The legend of the natives that once guarded these treasures has
vanished without a trace.

The island of Kauai has high cliffs and deep
ravines with a very rugged terrain. Reaching this island is an adventure in
itself not to mention if you could find Captain Cooks treasure. It is estimated
that his treasure would be worth more today than is imaginable. This does not
even include the other treasures of the various native tribes that have buried
treasures from many white men that decided to explore their island. A short
visit to Kauai Island could give a treasure hunter a life long dream of finding
the largest buried treasure ever found.

Captain Keiff was considered an old salvager that lived
on Cliff Island, Maine. He was a bit of a loner and lived in a log hut close to
the ocean. He did not have a job as most people; he would rummage through old
shipwrecks to find valuable items to sell. During this time, any shipwreck was
fair game and you could sell anything found without any questions asked as to
where they were found.

Since there were not many shipwrecks occurring and
Captain Keiff needed shipwrecks in order to survive, he devised a way to cause
the ships to wreck. He would tie a lantern around the neck of his horse and ride
up and down the shoreline when he noticed ships on the horizon.

The incoming ships would be guided to shore by his
lantern and would end up wrecking on the ledges and reefs that surrounded this
small island. He would then go out to the ship and kill any survivors. Then the
ship and all of its belongings was his for the taking.

He did this scandalous living for many years and
made a large fortune for himself. He was always afraid others were as unhanded
as he was and as the legend goes, he buried much of his finds nearby his hut on
Cliff Island. He never married and lived out his life alone on Cliff Island. No
one knows where he buried the treasures but today there is an area on Cliff
Island named Keiffs Garden, which might be the actual location of his home. For
treasure seekers, this would be a great place to visit with a metal detector;
however, you will more than likely have to get permission before searching on
the island or in Keiffs Garden.

As the legend of Captain Kidds treasure has been
passed down from generation to generation since the early 19th century it has
grown into a treasure hunters quest. According, to the legend or story of
Temple and Sheldon from 1875, Captain Kidd and his crew of fierce pirates went
up the Connecticut River in search of a place to bury their stolen gold. They
wanted to find the perfect spot that would be easily recognizable by them but
also very secluded. Somewhere near or on Clarkes Island in Northfield,
Massachusetts, close to the upper end of Pine Meadow, is believed to be the
spot.

Now, the story goes even deeper for those wishing
to find this hidden treasure. Captain Kidd and his crew drew lots to see which
one of them would be killed, so their body could lie upon the chest of gold, no
one knows who lost the draw.

Now, the tricky part, the legend states that to
find the gold and be able to retrieve it you must locate the exact spot when the
moon is full and directly overhead. You will have to have three people in your
party of treasure seekers, form a triangle around the spot and work one at a
time in silence until you unbury the treasure. However, one spoken word will
break the charm.

Now, if you are lucky enough to find the hidden
treasure, you had better be sure that no one even whispers a sigh of relief, or
the treasure will not be found.

Captain Marsh of the Far West and the Lost Treasure.

The Far West a steamboat and Captain Marsh are real the
journeys up and down the Bighorn River to supply troops fighting Indians in the
late 1800s are real. The legend about the lost gold has two very different
tales and if there was gold, it is still lost today.

As the one legend goes written by Emile Schurmacher,
Captain Marsh received a shipment of gold bars worth an estimated $375,000 in
Williston, North Dakota. He was to meet General Terry by following the Bighorn
River to what was called the mouth of Little Bighorn and then travel fifteen to
twenty miles upstream to supply General Terrys troops. After he gave the
supplies to General Terry, he was to travel to Bismarck to deliver the gold
bars. As the story goes, he learned of the massacre of General Custer and had to
take aboard 52 wounded men. Captain Marsh was concerned over the room he would
need to fuel his steamboat with the extra passengers aboard. He decided to bury
the gold bars at place of meeting Captain Terry and return later to retrieve the
gold. He did return, however a mudslide had covered the spot the gold bars were
buried and no amount of digging gave even a small glimpse of a gold bar.

The next legend of the Far West and the gold
treasure was written by Roy Norvill. His account is a bit more daring and
intertwined with danger. In this rendition, Captain Marsh had three men call to
him from the shore of Bighorn River on the evening of June 26, the day after
Custers demise. The men that shouted were Mark Jergens, Tom Dickson and Gil
Longworth the wagon driver; the other two were guards that were traveling with
him to guard the gold nuggets shipment from Bozeman, Montana to Bismarck. Gil
Longworth was concerned about the safety of the shipment with the Sioux Indians
that were causing havoc throughout the area. He persuaded Captain Marsh to load
the gold on the Far West. After the men were out of sight and headed to Bozeman
on land, Captain Marsh was also concerned about the safety of the gold and he
and his men buried the gold there along the shores of Bighorn River. The wounded
men, the same as in the first story were put on board the Far West and this is
when Captain Marsh learned of the death of the three men by the Sioux Indians.
By this story, no one ever searched for the gold that was buried.

In 1772, Spaniards traveling through the area
buried 15 loads of gold, which was estimated at around 130 pounds each, and
1,000 bars of silver, which weighed on average 20 pounds for each bar. The
treasure was buried just before an Indian attack in an area four or five miles
west and one or one and half miles just north of Harrisonville. The silver is
believed to be buried within ¼ mile of where the Rodman School stood. The gold
is believed to be about a mile farther north.

In 1930, a construction crew while building a
bridge found proof of a Spanish and Indian battle with remains of old weapons,
old armor, and even a few skeletons.

Harrisonville has grown since the late 1800s and
the exact location of the Rodman School will take some detective work, however,
if you are good at sleuthing you may be the one that discovers this treasure.

In the beginning Castle Gate, Utah was the home to
miners and the Pleasant Valley Coal Company. The only ones visiting the area
besides miners and workers for the coal company was of course outlaws. In 1886,
when this coal company began this entire area was very remote with rock
formations, mountains, cliffs and valleys surrounding the area and not too many
people it was the perfect hide-out for outlaws. One of the most famous outlaws
in the area was Butch Cassidy and his gang.

On April 21, 1897, Butch Cassidy, Elza Lay, and a
man by the name of Fowler robbed the payroll that was intended for the employees
of the Pleasant Valley Coal Company as it was being unloaded from the train.
They rode south on horseback with two residents following close behind. Butch
and his fellow train robbers got away with around $7,000. Cassidy and his
banditos cut the telephone and telegraph lines, which gave them more time to
elude the long arms of the law. They headed to Robbers Roost which it is still
believed the loot was hidden or along the trail known as Outlaw Trail. To this
day, none of the money has been recovered. If you go in search of this payroll,
you will find that all that is left of Castle Gate is a lone cemetery since the
town was demolished in 1974.

Many Butch, Lay, and Fowler hid the money along the
trail or maybe they went off to rob other trains and banks and hid the loot all
in one place. however, the rumor is this payroll heist is hidden somewhere in
the area.

When settlers first arrived to the area close by the
town of Blenheim in Schoharie County just north of Utsayantha Mountain and
around 35 miles southwest of Albany they happened upon Iroquois Indians wearing
a variety of silver jewelry. When asked the whereabouts of this precious metal
the Indians refused to divulge their secret.

After the Revolutionary War, other settlers began arriving to the area, two of
which were John and William Bauch. This pair was also very interested in the
silver ornaments the Indians wore. The brothers tried in vain to follow the
Indians through the rough terrain of the mountain, but never found the location
of this precious metal. The did their best in calculating and decided the silver
mine had to be in the area of Blenheim a bit east of Schoharie Creek. They
search the area many times; however, they did not find a single speck of silver.

The Bauch brothers could not just leave without searching more and choose a
German mineralogist, Casper Bertram to help them with their quest. The three of
them set out again in search of their fortune.

Finally, in 1804, Bertram thought he had found the source of the silver on a
farm owned by Nicholas Becker close by the junction of Mine Kin and Schoharie
Creek. Mining operations began after agreements were made with the three
partners and Nicholas Becker.

However, before any digging could begin Becker wanted to cut his wheat so it
would not spoil his harvest. Bertram offered to help him cut and the wheat.
While he was helping one of hired helpers swung a scythe too far and hit Bertram
in the leg severing a main artery. Bertram died before he could tell anyone the
location of the silver.

One of the legends concerning gold and the Cherokee
Indians is around 10 minutes for Toccoa, Georgia. As the tale goes, a bus driver
on the Atlanta to Charlotte run had a Cherokee Indian offer him a token of
appreciation for all he had done for him. The Cherokee Indian blindfolded the
bus driver to the cave. Once inside the cave, the Indian allowed his new friend
to grab as many gold nuggets as he could carry. He was once again blindfolded
and dropped off at the Toccoa bus station. As of today, neither the bus driver
nor other treasure seekers have found this mysterious cave.

During the time the Indians were abundant in
Georgia, there was a village close to the joining of the Chattahoochee River and
Craigs Creek in Duluth. There is proof of this village, where remains of pieces
of pottery and cabins have been discovered. The legend states that prior to the
Cherokee Indians being moved to Oklahoma as what is known as the Trail of Tears
the Indians buried pots of gold. The stories are basically the same except for
the amount of gold or how many pots were buried.

Other tales of gold hidden or buried by the
Cherokee Indians can be found in other locations throughout Georgia such as
under the Chattahoochee River, Shallow Rock Bridge Creek close to Canton,
Scarecorn Creek in Pickens County, and Talking Rock Creek also in Pickens
County.

In 1859, there were four unpleasant men that were
serving in the Peruvian Army as soldiers. They made very little money and were
always dreaming of a better life for themselves. The four men included Diego
Alvarez, a Spaniard; Killorain, an Irishman; Luke Barrett, an Englishman; and
Brown, an American. One of the men soon met Father Matteo, a priest who told the
man about a treasure that was in a church in the town of Pisco, Peru. The
treasure would not be easy to obtain. One first had to first find the treasure
that was hidden within the church and then get past the priests of the church
that guarded the treasure. The four men devised a plan to go to the church and
steal the treasure.

The priests became worried. They knew that there
was no possible way for the men to know about Father Matteo or the churchs
treasure on their own and believed that Father Matteo must really be trying to
steal the treasure. After some thinking and deliberating with the priests,
Alvarez came up with a way to keep the treasure safe. He and his friends could
place the treasure on their ship and take it to Callao. To keep the lot safe
while it was on route, Alvarez and his friends would be happy to guard the
treasure for the priests. The priests liked the plan and loaded onto the ship a
number of treasure pieces including doubloons, candlesticks encrusted in jewels,
assorted jewelry such as bracelets, necklaces, and rings, crucifixes, and uncut
stones.

The ship set out for its destination with some
crew, a few priests and four guards. After a few hours into their journey, the
four men killed everyone else on the ship. Alvarez came up with the plan that
they could abandon the ship and claim shipwreck so that no one would ever
suspect that they had murdered the others and robbed the ship. They could row to
Australia and then after some time, come back to reclaim their treasure. The
four men set sail for Tahiti to get supplies for their plan. Once they had
everything they needed, they travelled to a small coral reef and unloaded the
treasure there onto a smaller ship.

Because the reef had no harbor, they were not
entirely sure of where they were. Alvarez created a map but not knowing the
surrounding area very well made it very difficult and the map quite inaccurate.
They made their way to the nearby town of Katiu and Alvarez asked a local what
the name of the coral reef was. The man told him the name of the reef was Pinaki
and because Alvarez thought that the man may begin to wonder what the interest
was in the reef Alvarez shot him to prevent word spreading or the man going to
the reef himself and finding the treasure. Alvarez quickly became a wanted man
in the town after killing one of the locals and the four men had to quickly
leave the town. But the man had been mistaken and Pinaki was a reef far from the
reef that Alvarez had been at.

Just as they had planned, they continued on and
destroyed the ship so that they could row to Australia. Once there, the people
believed their story and the men lived very well off the little part of the
treasure that they had brought with them. However, due to some poor planning,
when it was time to reclaim the treasure, they found themselves somewhat short
of funds and needed to create more. They tried to find investors that would be
interested in a funding few prospectors with a treasure map but the investors
didnt want a part of it so they decided to go work in the Palmer gold fields.
During their time working there, Alvarez and Barrett got into a fight with a few
natives and were killed. Killorain and Brown also found themselves in a fight
and they killed a man. For that they were arrested, convicted, and sentenced to
twenty years in prison. While they were serving their time, Brown died.

In 1912 a man by the name of Charles Howe lived near Sydney. He was at home one
night when a beggar came to the door looking for money. Howe thought that he was
the most frightful looking man he had ever seen. He invited him in, let him dry
off and eat some food and then the beggar went on his way. About four months
later, the Sydney hospital called Howe at his home and asked him to come in. The
beggar was there and needed to talk to someone. Howe was the only person he
could think of. When Howe arrived, the beggar told Howe of his story of how his
name was Killorain and he had spent much of his life in prison. He told Howe of
the other three men and the buried treasure that he was now too sick and old to
reclaim. He gave Howe Alvarezs map and asked him to go get the treasure.

Howe left the hospital and started to investigate
the story. He found out that there had been a major theft from the church of
Pisco and that four men came to the town of Cooktown after claiming to have been
shipwrecked. He went back to the Sydney hospital to talk to Killorain but found
out that he had already died. Howe sold all he owned and set sail for Tahiti and
then move on to the small reef of Pinaki. In February of 1913, Howe set up to
live on Pinaki and he lived there for thirteen years, creating a grid and
looking for the treasure systematically. After coming up with nothing after all
that time, he went back to Tahiti and started to ask about the Bosun Bird, the
ship that had been shipwrecked off the small coral reek of Pinaki. He found out
that the ship had never been near Pinaki at all but it had been a different
coral reef.

Taking Alvarezs map once again, he set sail
looking for the treasure. It didnt take him long to find the jewels and the
doubloons and all he had left then was the gold. According to the map, it was at
the bottom of a pear-shaped pool. He searched the pool and found pieces of wood,
which he assumed were parts of the ship and was convinced that he was well on
his way to finding the rest of the treasure. However, he knew that he still had
the problem of pulling fourteen tons of gold out of the pool and he did not want
to ask any of the locals for help because he didnt want them to know that he
had found anything, especially with them already knowing his location. Instead,
he reburied the jewels and the doubloons and went back to tell the locals that
he hadnt found anything.

Howe moved back to Australia and gathered together
a small group of investors and prospectors that could help him go back to get
the treasure. While the plans were being made, Howe went out to the gold mines
to look for gold in 1932. He kept in touch with those that were still making
plans but then suddenly, all contact with Howe stopped and he was never heard
from again. Continuing on with their plans, the prospectors and investors went
to Tahiti to look for the gold in January 1934. They believed that they may have
found the reef that the treasure was buried but they had just begun to start
looking when they ran out of money. They went back to their investors and asked
for more money but the investors were no longer interested in funding this
seemingly-useless expedition.

The treasure has never been recovered and is still
buried on an island near Katiu and Makemo. For those very interested in being
the first ones to be able to uncover the treasure and keep it as their own, it
is known to be a deserted island while Alvarez and his men were camped there and
while Howe and his crew were working to find the treasure. On the eastern side
of the reef is a coral pinnacle and there is a small passageway to the left.
However, there is no harbour or place for a ship to enter. About three miles
from the passageway is the pear-shaped pool that is thought to have the gold.

It was during the 1850s when several Mormons were in a
group travelling to the small town of Horsetown. As they crossed Redding,
California, they knew that they would need to cross Clear Creek along the way.
Because it was fairly shallow water and the creek generally lived up to its
name, none of the settlers were concerned. However upon arriving at Clear Creek,
they found that the waters were extremely rough and that it was going to be
impossible to cross. Deciding to rest for a few days while they waited for the
waters to calm, they set up a small shelter. Unfortunately, the group became
restless quite quickly and determining that the creek was safe enough to cross,
they began leading their horses and wagons through the water and across to the
other side.

Most of the wagons made it through to the other
side without event but the wagon of a certain Mr. Bishop wasnt so fortunate.
Circumstance led him to crossing the creek just a bit further down than the rest
of the group. What he didnt know was that the water was much deeper here than
in the area that surrounded the rest of the group. While Bishop and the horses
made it to shore safely, the wagonload was quickly carried away by the waters
that were still to rough. With his wagon washed away the $40,000 he had been
carrying inside a small chest in the wagon. The group remained at the site the
entire week, combing the banks time and time again, looking for the chest filled
with gold. Not seeing any sign of it, they grew weary of the search and
continued to Horsetown. They would all make the journey back from time to time,
still in search of the missing gold but it was never found.

The story was almost dead and forgotten until 1910
when a treasure hunter by the name of William Dreestelhorst found a gold coin
worth ten dollars along the same banks one day. The coin dated back to 1841 and
clearly showed initials of SMV. The words California Gold also showed
clearly around the rim of the coin. This concluded that the coin had been made
by an assayer and that it was exactly the same coin that the Mormons would have
been carrying so many years ago.

This sparked the story going around time and time
again and sent many treasure hunters to the creek in search of the gold coin.
Although it has never been found, its thought to be in the area of southwest
Clear Creek in Redding, California.

During the 1850s, it was very common for men and teams
to travel westward close to California especially, in the search of gold. Two
German men were on such a mission with a group of other prospectors when they
decided to separate from the group and go their own way. They came to the area
of Mono Lake, in northern California, when the two men, weary from their
travels, stopped to rest by a small stream. They were very close to the Owens
River when one man noticed a ledge, made from red lava nearby and inside that
ledge was a lump of gold ore that seemed to have cemented itself together.

There was so much gold cemented within the ledge
however that one of the men didnt believe that it was real gold. The man who
knew treasure when he saw it spent much time pounding away at the gold. His
efforts were rewarded with approximately ten pounds of the gold to take with
him. He also drew a map of the area, for he was determined to come back and
retrieve the rest of the treasure. The man who did not believe that the gold was
real soon became sick and died along the way of their journey. The man who held
onto the gold was in fine health momentarily however, the gold became too heavy
for him to keep carrying around with him so he tossed it along the rest of his
way.

When he arrived in Millerton, California, he became
very ill as well and needed to make his way to San Francisco in the hopes of
receiving medical help. Once in San Francisco, he was diagnosed as having
tuberculosis by a man named Dr. Randall. The man however, had no money to pay
for his treatment and was far too sick to be travelling back to the gold to
retrieve more. As payment for the treatment Dr. Randall gave him, the man gave
him what little gold he had and the map that he had drawn of how to get to the
location.

In 1861 Dr. Randall called together a few people to
come and help him find the treasure. Randalls group, which grew in numbers once
the prospecting began and their focus was mainly on the area known as Pumice
Flat. People began to learn of the cement gold treasure that lay in wait for
someone to discover it and soon, many hunters were combing the area trying to be
the first to find the gold that looks like cement.

Some believe that two men from Dr. Randalls group
did in fact find the treasure and had it on them when they died. It was a bad
time to be in the area. The Owen Valley Indian War had just begun and the
Indians werent happy that the white men were coming to find camp all around
their land. Some Indians who were particularly angry with these men found the
two men from Dr. Randalls group who had found the treasure and had them killed.
Of course, these men died before they could reveal where the gold-filled ledge
sat.

In what is now known as Las Animas County in the
southeastern part of Colorado a wagon train carrying 1,500 pound of gold ingots
was attached by renegade Indians and a gang of outlaws, in 1858. The travelers
fought off the would-be robbers and headed into Chacuaco Canyon believing they
would elude the thieves.

The outlaws refused to give up and followed suite.
There were three members of the wagon train that chose to load the gold ingots
onto six mules and lead them to a rocky area close to creek. During the time
that the men with the mules were hiding the gold in the rocky area, the outlaws
killed everyone with the wagon train.

After hiding the gold, the three men escaped and
made their way to a Mexican village that was nearby. They did go back to
retrieve the hidden gold, but once close to their destination they were killed
by a party of Ute Indians.

Today, the treasure is still hidden away in a rocky
area near the creek in Chacuaco Canyon in the southeaster part of Colorado.

As the story goes, somewhere along the stone cliffs above the Purgatorie River
around 12 miles from Old Bents Fort just a bit northeast of Las Animas there is
a treasure buried. The treasure that can be found here is eight burros loads of
fifty-pound gold bars that were buried by Spaniards.

The legend states the gold was buried around 300
feet from a weird arrangement of rocks, many claim the rocks are in the shape of
a doll or at least as close as you can get to a shape of woman. This pile of
rocks stood 30 feet high. Before, the Spaniards could retrieve the hidden gold
they were all killed most likely by Indian attacks.

The exact whereabouts of the doll rock formation is
questionable as some say that it is on the northwest slope of West Spanish Peak
in northwest Colorado in LaVeta and others claim it is on the northwest quadrant
of East Spanish Peak.

You can find Devils Head Mountain about 30 miles
north of Woodland Park. Hidden caves, thick brush and trees, and gulches consume
the entire area. Because of the ability to hide just about anything here during
the 1800s this area was full of all kinds of outlaws, bandits, and various
other bad guys.

The stories and legends abound about the many
treasures hidden here by all kinds; the problem is no one has found a clue of
just one gold piece. However if you go west from Sedalia on Route 67, then south
on Rampart Range Road, and then go another 10 miles to Devils Head road and
begin exploring you may be the first to find more than just a gold coin you may
hit pay dirt.

It is believed, that a treasure is buried along the
coast of where Columbia City, Oregon now stands. The legend explains that in
1841, a Spanish ship needed to stop for water and once ashore, the crew killed
the captain and stole the valuable cargo. The crew could not decide how to share
the loot and several others died in before a decision was made to bury the loot
because of the Indians close by that were also killing off crewmembers. The
treasure was buried on a plot of land known as Hez Copiers farm and the crew
rowed back to the larger ship and set sail.

Upon returning after a two years, in 1843, the
Indians were gone, however, the treasure was nowhere to be seen.

After about 40 years of hearing of this lost
treasure a group of Spiritualists, gather in Columbia City to try to locate the
fortune. One of the mediums present found the exact location and the digging
began, however, once a portion of some broken stone was removed one of the
diggers fell dead. The excavation was halted. Again, in 1890, the treasure was
the hot topic. The next piece of stone was removed and under it was found human
skeletons, then one of the diggers this time went raving mad and all was
stopped. To this day, no one has even tried to locate this treasure.

Columbus Junction, Iowa is the location that a bit of
treasure has been found, however, as the legend goes there two caches hidden
away in the area and only a small portion has been recovered.

Both of the treasures known to have been around
Columbus Junction were from train robberies. In one train robbery, $30,000 in
gold and silver coins was stolen in 1904, and the other robbery took place close
to Whisky Hollow in 1910.

With the train robbery in 1904, it is believed that
$10,000 of the original $30,000 was found by a man digging a septic tank close
to Letts in 1934. The rest of the loot has not been discovered but the
speculations are that it is hidden somewhere between Letts and Columbus
Junction.

The other train robbery close by Whiskey Hollow has
mystery all around it. In 1910, around 6 miles south of Muscatine, two robbers
uncoupled the engine and the express car from the train. They traveled very
close to Columbus Junction before leaving them on the tracks and taking off with
the loot. However, here is the twist, the robbers were caught shortly after
leaving the train but no loot was found on them or between the spot they were
captured and the abandoned train. There is also much turmoil over the amount of
money that was stolen; some say the total amount was $5,000 while others swear
it was $50,000.

If you have plenty of time on your hands and wish to
treasure seek there is no place better than around Corpus Christi, Texas. There
are so many stories of buried or lost treasures all around this entire area,
from ships that sunk carrying large amounts of treasure to Spanish soldiers who
buried treasure. Here is a short list of some of the treasure you may find if
you decide to spend your life in Corpus Christi seeking buried treasure.

Buried on St. Joseph Island across from Rockport
are ornaments and gold that were designed for a Vera Cruz cathedral. Another
treasure on St. Joseph Islands near the southern end is payroll that was
intended for Spanish soldiers.

Casa Blanca has two treasures in the vicinity, the
first one is money that is hidden under a rock pile and somewhere in a cave in
Jim Wells County, and items from a Spanish fort are buried.

Padre Island is known for a hidden treasure of
pieces of eight and doubloons that were stuffed into large cannons made of
brass. A Spanish ship wrecked off the coast of Padre Island carrying over 50,000
pounds of precious metal. Another Spanish galleon named Capitana is also
reported to be off the coast of Padre Island with over $1,000,000. The French
ship Maria Theresa is another ship off the coast of Padre Island. It is
estimated to be located at the mid-point of Kennedy County. This French ship was
carrying $100,000 to $210,000 when it sank. Keep searching off the coast of
Padre Island for treasure from the side-wheel steamer Paisano that had canvas
bags on board that were filled with $200,000. Go to the northern tip of Padre
Island and then inland for around 20 miles and start digging to see if you can
find the treasure that was buried in Kleberg County from a Spanish ship that was
stranded on the coast.

As you can see, there is more than one fortune to
be found in and around Corpus Christi, Texas. All of these treasures have been
reported and can be found in the library in the history section, however, not
one of the treasures have been discovered.

Lost in Austria, a $50 million treasure is waiting for
a treasure hunter able to recreate the conditions of an escape route running
from Germany to one of the lakes near Strasburg in the heart of the Austrian
Alps.

The treasure was made up of jewels and gold
confiscated by victims of the Dachau Concentration Camp, the older camp of the
Third Reich started in 1933 in the city of the same name, near Munich. Dachau
housed 30,000 prisoners in 1945, the year in which a group of Nazis ran away
with the treasure before being captured by Allied Forces.

Dachau was not only a prison for Jewish people, but
for about 1,173 Nazi war criminals imprisoned there. One of them, a former
officer of the SS condemned to death, revealed to Dr. Wilhem Groß the existence
of an impressive treasure. Dr. Groß, an Austrian born physician, identified the
place described by the prisoner and shared this information with Edward Greger,
a U.S. Army intelligence officer stationed in Austria in 1952.

Groß and Greger followed the route described by the
German officer toward the Lake Lünersee on the Austrian border with Swiss.
According to the story, the Commandant of the camp loaded the treasure into 4
boxes with the help of his assistants before leaving Dachau. The informer was
one of those officers conspiring to escape with the treasure and then taking
separate ways until the time to recover the cargo arrived.

In the mid-40s, Lake Lünersee was an isolated
region and they thought that nobody could find the treasure for years... they
were right indeed. Those German officers were led to death for war crimes and
seven years after the treasure was buried, the only man who knew its location
was Dr. Groß. However, in 1952, the area was eroded by the passing of the time
and the only signs to find the treasure disappeared.

Four years later, Groß and Greger returned to the
lake after calculating where the treasure was buried, but a damn constructed in
1956 increased the lake's level submerging the boxes under nearly 75 feet of
water. Greger returned again in 1990, a time when the lake recovered its
original level after the damn was emptied for some days, but the treasure was
not found possibly sunk deeper somewhere inside the lake due to weight of the
boxes.

The exact date was not recorded; however, a bank vault
in Monterey, Mexico and a church in Matamoras, Mexico were robbed. The treasure
included many rawhide bags of $90,000 Mexican dollars, 93 bars of solid gold
bullion, bags of gold and silver, a statue of the Virgin Mary and one of Jesus
made of pure gold, and a cigar box full of diamonds. These treasures were loaded
on a smugglers train and left Mexico heading north.

Somewhere along the way, it is belied in
southeastern Arizona; the train was robbed by a gang of bandits. These outlaws
traveled through Skeleton Canyon and buried their treasure on what they all
called Davis Mountain. You can search all day long on any map of Arizona and you
will never find a place called Davis Mountain. However, the outlaws left behind
directions to their stolen treasure, but no one knows the reason no one returned
to retrieve their loot.

The directions to this infamous treasure were
spoken by one of the outlaws on his deathbed and were accounted as:

Go west across the plains to Davis Mountain, a
bald, rounded granite dome visible for miles. When you get to Davis Mountain,
keep going west for around 1 to 1 ½ miles until you see a canyon. The east wall
of the canyon is wooded, while the west is sheer rock. The creek will plunge
over a ledge into a small cataract about 10 feet high and Silver Spring flows
into the canyon on the west end. Close to the spring is a very tall juniper
tree. Under this juniper tree is a grave that is marked with slabs of stone. At
the head of the grave, there is $500 in gold buried there in a tin can.

Now, go up the canyon and south of the Silver
Springs, keep going south you will run into Gum Spring. However, you want to
stop in between the two where you see scattered bush. Here you will find the
remains of a burned wagon. The wagon can be found on the west side of the canyon
near the shallow cove. At the deepest part of the cove, you will find a stone
marker that is 3 feet high, 1 foot thick and square shaped. On the east side of
the stone marker, you will see two crosses. Now, stand and face Davis Mountain
walk twenty paces and you have the treasure.

As the legend goes in 1880, three prospectors were
around two miles north of what is known today as Dead Man Camp. These
prospectors were S.J. Harkman, H.A. Melton, and E.J. Oliver. A storm began to
blow and a blizzard was in the making. The three started searching for shelter.
They noticed a small opening in the wall of the canyon and made their way
through the opening. Using their torches to light the way they came upon a
20-foot long room. There were other tunnels leading away from this one room.
They picked one and headed deeper into the cavern until they reached a large
vault like room. In this room, Melton noticed man made shelves carved into the
wall, on the shelves were odd shaped stones. They all three examined the stones
and found to their surprise it was crude bars of gold.

Once the storm let up, they headed immediately to
Silvercliff each with 5 bars of gold. Once there they had the gold appraised and
each bar was worth $900. Many people tried their best to get just one of the
three to let them in on the whereabouts of the gold. However, neither of them
would talk. In the spring, they headed out once more to retrieve this gold, but
they could never find the exact location. As far as anyone knows, these crude
shaped bars of gold are still on those man made shelves somewhere in the wet
mountains.

During the 1870s, on the east side of the Sierra
Nevada Range, Desert Steamers, Desert Steamers were used to haul the silver ore
from the silver mines. Many stories about the different steamers used this time
talk of lost treasures.

If you go treasure hunting around Death Valley the
best places to go by legends are Owens Lake, Lake Tahoe, Meadow Lake and Donner
Lake. All had steamers crossing them with loads of silver ore, lumber and other
treasures.

One such story that has been passed down through
history is one telling about $200,000 in gold bullion, which was lost on either
the Bessie Brady or the Mollie Stevens. The stories were never exactly told in
the same fashion or even mentioning the same steamer. However, the money amount
and Owens Lake were in each tale.

Another tale that has been in circulation since the
early 1900s also occurred on the same lake, Owens Lake. The story was told by
the captain of the boat. He had on board his steamer two wagonloads of gold
bullion, somehow one of these wagons slid off the boat and into the lake. The
one wagon had not chained to steamer as it should have been and high winds is
believed to have knocked it overboard. The tale goes on to say that the wagon
and a small portion of the gold was retrieved, however, much of it still lies at
the bottom of lake.

One other incident, which is not supported by any
documentation, was the alleged loss of a wagonload of bullion that was being
carried on one of the steamers before their demise. The tale, originated by a
man who said he heard it from the captain of the boat, contends that the steamer
was carrying two wagons loaded with bullion when one slipped off into the lake.
Allegedly, when a high wind hit the bullion-filled wagon, not sufficiently
chained to the deck, the wagon was swept into the lake. The tale continues that
while the wagon and some of the gold was recovered, a good amount remained in
the depths of the water.

Owens Lake is nothing now more than a dusty empty
hole in Inyo County, California. The water was drained by the Los Angeles
Aqueduct to divert the water from the Owens River and runoff from the Sierra
Nevada mountain range.

The gold and other valuable treasure has not been found as of yet, but
discoveries such as a 300 pound ship propeller and a 400 pound hand wrought iron
anchor prove there was a lake at the location. Gold and silver ore are there it
is just a matter of seeking it out.

In 1850, a group of emigrants was headed to
Californias gold country with Captain Jefferson Hunt in the lead. They camped
at White Sage Flat, which is just a bit west of Death Valley. When they first
left, there were 107 wagons in search of their fortune headed to California. Of
course, with this many people they are always different opinions as to the best
route to take even if Captain Hunt had traveled this area and taken others to
California.

As the legend goes, November 1, 1849 was the day
that the 107 wagons were split into different routes. From the larger group,
other groups decided to go off on their own in the search of a shorter route.
The groups were the Bennett-Arcane party, the Brier and Wade families, the
Georgia-Mississippi party led by Captain Towne and Jim Martin, and the
Jayhawkers.

The Georgia-Mississippi party hiked over the
Panamints and wandered through the cold countryside until they reached White
Sage Flat and made a camp. The Jayhawkers and Briers left and went their own way
and arrived at White Sage Flat one day after the Georgia-Mississippi party. When
they arrived, they saw Captain Towne carving a new gunsight for his rifle. The
gunsight he was carvings was from pure silver! The Georgia-Mississippi party
told the tale of silver ore that just below their camp on top of a mesa. As the
tale goes, the silver ore covered the top of the mesa.

However, since it was winter and supplies were
running so low, finding food and shelter from the harsh winter was more
important at the time than any silver mine, so they traveled onward to their
original destination. After traveling nearly a month more, they finally made it
to Mariposa, which was at the southern end of the gold country. Here many of the
emigrants began a new life, however, some could not shake the thoughts of the
silver covering the mesa top.

Not long after the emigrants began their new lives,
one of the Georgia-Mississippi party, Mr. Turner went in search of the silver.
He could never find the mesa with all the silver ore. He gathered a group
together and in September 1850, went in search of the silver ore once again.
This time, they did find remains of old campfires and even cattle bones, but by
this time, supplies were almost gone so they had to return home.

There are different versions of this tale according
to which member of the parties you are talking with, however, they all claim the
silver ore is there, the only difference is which party was responsible for
finding the mine in the beginning. The silver ore is still there hidden away for
only the lucky to find.

Close to the northeastern corner of Wyoming is a
mountain that resembles a very large tree stump. Several legends have centered
on this mysterious mountain as well as others areas near by. The tower is
located in what is known as the Black Hills and has some of the largest caves in
the world under it, which include Jewel Cave, and Wind Cave. During the 1880s
many flocked to the area during the gold rush to mine for gold in this area. the
legend that I am about to tell is one that has never been proven, however, if
you know much about Indians, all stories were passed down from father to son and
could very well be true.